informative thread i made for instagram but i thought i'd share it here too
🆘🆘🆘PLEASE RT IF YOU CAN'T DONATE!!! we are DESPERATELY trying to get more people to talk about this!!
venezuelans, please share useful links in the replies ⬇️
venezuelans are really pissed off right now. here's a guy beating corrupt officers with a crutch. several officers and guards have been caught stealing, looting and otherwise sabotaging the efforts of the rescue teams and civilians trying to help with earthquake relief. ACAB
So! The Venezuelan goverment realized that they look bad in front of other countries, they didn’t provide any help with the venezuelan army or even the firefighters cause they were too busy filming videos with their soldiers for social media 😃???
The ones saving people are the citizens, the ones who are providing food and water ARE the citizens with their own money, the ones who are using their bare hands without any kind of protections or helmets ARE 👏🏻 THE👏🏻CITIZENS👏🏻
Now the venezuelan goverment its closing the most affected zone of the country ��La Guaira” where thousands are death, missing or still stuck between walls waiting for someone to save them. Please keep your eyes in Venezuela, please support my people, sharing a post, donating to someone who is buying medical supplies could save the life of someone, a little kid, a grandma, even a baby… my people is saving themselves from something that they couldnt control but the chavismo still try to stop us to keep all these families alive.
With all my heart I tell you guys, lets be kind to each other, treat others as you want to be treated 🫂
The soldiers from the Army of Venezuela are getting into the collapsed areas to STEAL clothes, hats and anything that they can find from the homes of people who died, isnt that enough for you guys to realize that our goverment DONT CARE ABOUT US even after this disaster?
Venezuela just experienced something that statistically should not happen: two of the four largest earthquakes in its recorded history, 39 seconds apart.
In over a century of records, the biggest quake the country ever logged was a 7.7 in 1900. Wednesday's 7.5 now ranks second all-time. The 7.2 that struck 39 seconds before it ranks around fourth. Same fault, same minute.
That gap is what turned it catastrophic. A building doesn't reset between shocks. The first cracks the structure, shifts load paths, loosens connections. The second lands on a frame that's already compromised. A structure that rides out a single 7.5 can come down under a 7.2 followed by a 7.5. The damage compounds in a way neither quake does alone.
The stacked energy is also why it reached so far. Shaking was felt into Colombia and reportedly as far as Brazil's Amazon, over 1,000 miles out.
A country's second- and fourth-biggest earthquakes ever, 39 seconds apart. Most fault systems don't do that in 10,000 years.
All eyes on Bolivia right now as Congress just voted to allow the right wing president Rodrigo Paz to declare martial law.
For weeks the people of Bolivia have shut the country down in opposition to the austerity policies of the 5 month old Paz admin.
All eyes on Bolivia right now as indigenous communities who have built immense political power through Evo Morales’ years of rule fight to defend their revolution against US aggression.